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17 results found for '"Pensioners welfare"' in Keywords.
Jack Jones on pensions increase (1978)
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- Interview
Jack Jones, former General Secretary of the General Workers Union, on the forthcoming union conference which aims to put pressure on the Government to increase pensions. Male interviewer not identified.
Jack Jones on his retirement (1978)
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- Interview
Interview with General Secretary of the TGWU Jack Jones on his achievements as General Secretary, following his retirement, and on his new role as a spokesman for pensioners. Male interviewer not identified.
Betty Millard wants state pension raised (1978)
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- Interview
Betty Millard of the National Federation of OAPs, on the level of the state pension. Millard wants to see the pension linked to the industrial earnings claiming that the cost of life has increased...
Jack Jones on elderly (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Jack Jones, TUC, on proposals for improving the conditions of old people.
Jack Jones on pensioners (1979)
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- Interview
Former union leader and campaigner for pensioners’ rights, Jack Jones, on the reasons for holding a National Pensioners’ conference - to pressure the Government for increased pensions and concessionary...
Reg Prentice on aims of BPTUAA (1980)
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- Interview
Conservative MP and social security minister Reg Prentice on a hunger strike organised by a militant group calling itself The British Pensioners and Trade Union Action Association (BPTUAA), which has...
Spring budget - Rise in pension (1982)
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- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the rise in the state retirement pension in Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe’s Spring budget. Female interviewer not identified. Sound in mono.
Arthur Scargill on pensioners (1983)
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- Speech
Speech by NUM President Arthur Scargill at a miners’ rally in Bradford where he attacks the Conservative Government over their policies towards pensioners and the elderly. Poor quality audio.
General Election - Pensioners’ rights (1983)
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- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Jack Jones) on representing the rights of pensioners in the 1983 General Election. Interviewer not heard.
Jack Jones on meeting with Prime Minister (1983)
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- Interview
Former trade union leader Jack Jones on talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after he led a delegation of pensioners to No. 10, Downing Street. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Richard Dallyn).